From: Bert Freudenberg bert@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
- Use Unicode instead of ASCII and define private characters
for special keys [...]
I'd prefer ...
1a. Use X key codes instead of ASCII so you do not have to define private characters for special keys
I don't see how this is an advantage, after all, the X keycodes essentially *are* private character definitions for special keys. The only difference between your proposal and mine that I can see is that with your proposal, codes may conflict with assigned Unicode codes, whereas with mine they cannot.
.... as suggested by Andreas Raab. (Not quite) incidentally, these key codes include the ASCII characters at the usual code positions.
So does Unicode. In fact, Unicode also has all the ISO characters at their usual/standard code positions. It also, not at all incidentally, has all the other Unicode standard characters at their standard positions, which sort of is the point ;-)
Marcel